I 100%d sable and only found it mildly frustrating in certain parts. Pretty good game overall.

I wish there were more games like it where you could just enjoy the world instead of it being all about some missions.

I can make up my own songs with lyrics that I want to sing.

Lately I’ve been working on one called “these people are nuts”.

Completing botw became more of a chore than anything else. I couldn’t get all the way through tears of the kingdom. The chores in that one just compounded. I managed to somehow light up the entire underworld and yet my gear was too fucking terrible to face the end bosses.

Botw was very cool at times, but it had a few things that made it utterly frustrating to play. The weapons breaking and having to watch Link go “uhh eeefff eeeff ooof” on the side of a cliff for hours was just painful and purposeless.

To your point, it seems like no game can manage to have an expansive, explorable world that’s actually rewarding to explore. Maybe there is an exception out there but I haven’t encountered it.

Often it’s climbing.

I’m looking at you, breath of the wild.